Heart Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

Those who create are hard of heart.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

At heart I am a warrior.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

One must learn to be a sponge if one wants to be loved by hearts that overflow.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

They call you heartless; but you have a heart and I love you for being ashamed to show it.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Whoever writes in blood and aphorisms wants not to be learned but to be learned by heart.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

He that writeth in blood and proverbs doth not want to be read, but learnt by heart.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

That for which we find words is something already dead in our hearts

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Many find their heart when they have lost their head.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The heart and hand of those who always mete out become callous from always meting out.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I love him who is of a free spirit and a free heart: thus is his head only the bowels of his…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

When our brain feels too weak to deal with our opponent's objections, our heart answers by casting suspicion on their underlying motives.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A good seat on a horse steals away your opponent's courage and your onlooker's heart-what reason is there to attack? Sit like…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The love of indulgence is rooted in the depths of a man's heart. His soul would prefer to share the excessive and…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

...lust is only a sweet poison for the weakling, but for those who will with a lion's heart it is the reverently…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I know the hatred and envy of your hearts. Ye are not great enough not to know of hatred and envy. Then…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

In a friend one should have ones best enemy. You should be closest to him with your heart when you resist him.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A heart full of courage and cheerfulness needs a little danger from time to time, or the world gets unbearable.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

We are unknown to ourselves, we men of knowledge - and with good reason. We have never sought ourselves - how could…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

What is it that endowed things with meaning, value, significance? The creating heart, which desired, and, out of its desire, created. It…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Astrology presupposes that the heavenly bodies are regulated in their movements in harmony with the destiny of mortals: the moral man presupposes…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Crude men who feel themselves insulted tend to assess the degree of insult as high as possible, and talk about the offense…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The 'kingdom of God' is not something one waits for; it has no yesterday or tomorrow, it does not come 'in a…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

But let me open up my heart to you completely, my friends: if there were gods, how could I bear not being…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Kindliness, friendliness, the courtesy of the heart, are ever-flowing streams of non egoistic impulses, and have given far more powerful assistance to…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Shackled heart, free spirit.--Whoever binds his heart tightly and imprisons it may indulge his spirit in many liberties: I have already said…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I can tell by my own reaction to it that this book is harmful." But let him only wait and perhaps one…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The tragedy is that we cannot believe the dogmas of religion and metaphysics if we have the strict methods of truth in…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

He who has attained the freedom of reason to any extent cannot, for a long time, regard himself otherwise than as a…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

At every step one has to wrestle for truth; one has to surrender for it almost everything to which the heart, to…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Indeed, at hearing the news that 'the old god is dead', we philosophers and 'free spirits' feel illuminated by a new dawn;…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosophers are not honest enough in their work, although they make a lot of virtuous noise when the problem of truthfulness is…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

To live as I incline, or not to live at all: so do I wish; so wisheth also the holiest. But alas!…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The thousand mysteries around us would not trouble but interest us, if only we had cheerful, healthy hearts.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks, in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

You implanted your highest goal into the heart of those passions: then they became your virtues and joys.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

When Zarathustra was alone . . . he said to his heart: "Could it be possible! This old saint in the forest…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

To blaspheme the earth is now the most dreadful sin, and to rate the heart of the unknowable higher than the meaning…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.'

— Friedrich Nietzsche

One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The belief in authority is the source of conscience; which is therefore not the voice of God in the heart of man,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche